Abilene Berhorst Current Position is Peer Recovery Support Specialist. Currently helps with Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) clients, within Lyon County, that suffer from mental illness that impacts their ability to function in everyday life and lands them in emergency room visits. She helps guide them on how to function as productive members of the community. Abbey also supports and encourages clients that suffer from mental health conditions and alcohol and substance use by sharing her lived experiences from being in recovery since 2011.
Abbey core values include honesty, integrity, happiness, compassion, spirituality, learning, friendship, family, humor and fun. She believes that core values for each individual client gives a clearer picture of how addiction and mental health conditions affects what they value most. She enjoys helping people dig deeper into what they want for themselves, and to help clients identify and accomplish important goals to bring more meaning to their lives.
Most of her career was in the management and accounting field, then one day she decided she wanted a change and began a career of helping people, like her, that struggle with mental health conditions and substance abuse. She loves her new career choice and is dedicated to helping people in her community.
Outside of work, Abbey loves watching her husband race his dirt track stock car on the weekends and enjoys spending time with her family and friends.